Affiliation:
1. Division of Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Direct tube coagulase testing for identification of
Staphylococcus aureus
from BACTEC culture broth showed a sensitivity, a specificity, and positive and negative predicative values of 34%, 100%, 100%, and 80.2% with 2 h of incubation and 65%, 98.7, 99.7%, and 88.6% with 4 h of incubation. Anaerobic blood culture contributed significantly to the detection of
S. aureus
.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
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